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Power, knowledge, and expertise in Elizabethan England
viii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Introduction : expert mediators and Elizabethan England -- German miners, English mistrust, and the importance of being "expert" -- Expert mediation and the rebuilding of Dover Harbor -- Early mathematical navigation in England -- Secants, sailors and Elizabethan manuals of navigation -- Francis Bacon and the expertise of natural philosophy -- Conclusion : power, authority, and the expert mediator.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-255) and index.
Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 122nd series, 2